Newsgroup problem

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:16:45 GMT, zatatime wrote:

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:57:08 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

None I have tried came close to the convenience and clarity that OE
provides. I hope Charter can keep its act together.


Have you tried Agent? It's free. Once I took a look at it, I never
went back to OE.

I'll second that although I did not like the limitations of free agent
and bought the full version which is not expensive.


Also, here is a link to a free news provider. May be helpful if
Charter keeps having problems.


Link??

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


HTH.
z

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:46:41 -0500, Roger
wrote:

Also, here is a link to a free news provider. May be helpful if
Charter keeps having problems.


Link??

Ooops. Sorry about that.

Link: http://news.individual.net/

It doesn't do binaries, but others have said it's about the best
server out there.

HTH.
z

(Who also sprung for the full version of Agent.)

"zatatime" wrote

Have you tried Agent? It's free. Once I took a look at it, I never
went back to OE.


I did play with Agent a little last night. Not bad, and it deserves another
look.

Also, here is a link to a free news provider. May be helpful if
Charter keeps having problems.

HTH.
z

That link is where? :-)
--
Jim in NC

Morgans, on Dec 6, 9:57 am , wrote:

" I'm just going to forget about the missed posts. Too much hassle to
sort
though them any other way. I think I'll live. :-) ":

You can read them using google, www.google.com.

However they are upgrading their user interface so that it is much
harder
than it was last week.

--

Doug C

I didn't mind the limitations of Free Agent, but it kept locking up my ISP
connection every half hour or so. OE hasn't locked up once in the last
month.

Is this one of the "features" that you have to pay to get rid of? I'd hate
like hell to spend the money on a product that did this in the pay-for
version.

Jim




"Roger" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:16:45 GMT, zatatime wrote:

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:57:08 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

None I have tried came close to the convenience and clarity that OE
provides. I hope Charter can keep its act together.


Have you tried Agent? It's free. Once I took a look at it, I never
went back to OE.

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:02:34 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

I didn't mind the limitations of Free Agent, but it kept locking up my ISP
connection every half hour or so. OE hasn't locked up once in the last
month.

Is this one of the "features" that you have to pay to get rid of? I'd hate
like hell to spend the money on a product that did this in the pay-for
version.

Jim

I've never had either the free version, or regular version "lock up"
my connection. I have had the converse happen (using most of my
upload bandwidth and Agent struggled to download), but I'd attribute
that more to how cable works and not the software. Not sure what may
have happened to you, but would start by checking the programs set-up,
although it appears to be too late for that.

HTH.
z

I used to use Free Agent and now use the paid for version.

Never had this experience you describe.

John



On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:02:34 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

I didn't mind the limitations of Free Agent, but it kept locking up my ISP
connection every half hour or so. OE hasn't locked up once in the last
month.

Is this one of the "features" that you have to pay to get rid of? I'd hate
like hell to spend the money on a product that did this in the pay-for
version.

Jim




"Roger" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:16:45 GMT, zatatime wrote:

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:57:08 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

None I have tried came close to the convenience and clarity that OE
provides. I hope Charter can keep its act together.


Have you tried Agent? It's free. Once I took a look at it, I never
went back to OE.

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:02:34 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

I didn't mind the limitations of Free Agent, but it kept locking up my ISP
connection every half hour or so. OE hasn't locked up once in the last
month.

Is this one of the "features" that you have to pay to get rid of? I'd hate
like hell to spend the money on a product that did this in the pay-for
version.

Jim

I use Free Agent. The times mine "locks up" the dialog box explains
that it is the fault of the server being overloaded.

Ed Sullivan

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 18:34:13 -0800, Ed Sullivan
wrote:

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 16:02:34 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

I didn't mind the limitations of Free Agent, but it kept locking up my ISP
connection every half hour or so. OE hasn't locked up once in the last
month.

Is this one of the "features" that you have to pay to get rid of? I'd hate
like hell to spend the money on a product that did this in the pay-for
version.

No. As I recall the differences are the way threads are grouped and a
couple of other things that are nice to have. Ed could probably tell
you what he could gain by going to the full version. I've had it so
long I've forgotten.

As Ed said, it'll explain the hangs, or lock ups, which are usually
due to the server. OTOH if you run as much stuff as I do at the same
time the computer sometimes gets kinda slowwww....

Try free agent. It's good and if you want more I think it's about $20
to upgrade. That's a WAG as I have forgotten the cost to upgrade to
the full version.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Jim

I use Free Agent. The times mine "locks up" the dialog box explains
that it is the fault of the server being overloaded.

Ed Sullivan

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 06:32:38 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

Well, it appears that whoever screwed it up, came back to
work Monday, and fixed it. Everything is back working, so ignore my
request.

Thanks, all.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


DAMN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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